At two o'clock in the afternoon, several people who received the notice rushed over, and after everyone arrived, Xiao Zhenlei presided over this small meeting, first introduced the situation by Fan Zhiyong, who was more aware of what happened in the morning, and after Fan Zhiyong finished speaking, Xiao Zhenlei asked him to sit down, and he said: "Mr. Fan has made an introduction, the situation is clear to everyone, now let's talk about what to do?" We can't hand over 10,000 taels of silver to Cao Gaitian every month, right? Xu Baoshan has been done by us, do we still have to look at his little Cao Gaitian's face to run the factory? Brother Jiuguang, you are in charge of intelligence, can you first tell me who this Cao Gaitian is? Why are there so many people under his hands? ”

Xiao Zhenlei knows that after today's incident, tomorrow he will be famous again on the beach, no, there is no need to wait for tomorrow, this afternoon's off-the-spot will report on this matter, this reputation is not a good reputation, but a bad reputation, among those reporters can be anyone, for the sake of newspaper sales, some of them are in order to increase the news boo, add fuel to the matter, which will definitely make his prestige plummet.

When Wang Yaqiao heard this, he nodded sternly, he thought about Cao Gaitian's information, and said: "This Cao Gaitian's original name was Cao Xiaoqi, and he used to be a ruffian in Baoshan County, but later he didn't know how to climb Zhang Renkui, and worshiped Zhang Renkui as an old man, Zhang Renkui supported him with some manpower and more than a dozen guns, and since then this guy has been the king and hegemon in Baoshan, and soon subdued all the ruffians in Baoshan, and began to open a hall to accept apprentices, and he also became an old man!" ”

After listening to Wang Yaqiao's introduction, Xiao Zhenlei smiled: "Ha, go around." We still have to deal with Zhang Renkui, only by being Zhang Renkui can we hold Cao Gaitian, otherwise we will only deal with Cao Gaitian, Zhang Renkui will still have to find trouble with us! ”

Song Shijie nodded and said, "Since they are in this relationship." The gentleman's words are indeed reasonable, and the small ones are beaten, and the old ones will definitely have to come forward to get back to the field! ”

Xiao Zhenlei smoked a cigarette and asked, "Let's talk about what to do next!" ”

The eagle said: "Boss, what else is there to say, just do Cao Gaitian and make an example of chickens and monkeys!" Sooner or later, we will have to fight Zhang Renkui. Now let's do it Cao Gaitian to give him a little bit of power, so that he doesn't dare to trouble us for the time being, and we must organize an escort team that has always been enough to protect ourselves, and now the number of escorts is too small, and there are no weapons and equipment. If it's just a few petty thieves who come in and make trouble, the escort team will still come in handy, but it will not be used at all like today, so we must expand the number of escort troops, equip everyone in the escort team with firearms, organize the escort team to fight and firearms training, according to the distance of the army, our escort team has such a good salary. You can't keep them from working! ”

This was discussed between Xiao Zhenlei and Eagle before, and it was proposed by Eagle at the meeting, and if others were worried that the government would find trouble, they would oppose it. Then Xiao Zhenlei will come out to mediate again, in short, so as not to let internal suspicions and contradictions.

After the eagle finished saying this, Wang Yaqiao first said: "I agree with Cai Guodong (the eagle's name) to mention yì, we have invested so much money in the factory, and there is a huge amount of manpower and material resources, and we have also signed a contract with Lihe Foreign Bank. If the factory closes because of this, we will lose all our money. If you are worried that the government will find out about the expansion of the escort team, the government will send someone to stop it. We can send some money to the surnamed Ge and stop his mouth, as for the issue of firearms, last time I went to talk to the managers of several foreign companies, but unfortunately it was not negotiated, they are not willing to sell such a small number of weapons to people of unknown origin like me, but if we order in large quantities, many weapons will rust in the warehouse, and they will not be used, but they can be bought by people on the black market, and they are worried that the noise will be too big and attract the attention of the government! ”

Song Shijie and Fan Zhiyong all nodded, worried about attracting the attention of the government, and they all agreed with the eagle's suggestion one after another.

Xiao Zhenlei looked at everyone and said: "Okay, since everyone has a unified opinion, then we have to start immediately, starting tomorrow, Cai Guodong and Hu Weishan, you continue to erect a sign at the gate of the factory to recruit guards, Hu Weishan is responsible for the specific recruitment of people, and Cai Guodong is responsible for training." Wu Shirong is responsible for dispatching a part of the guards to maintain the safety of the factory area. Mr. Song was responsible for purchasing daily necessities, clothing, shoes and socks for the guards, and Mr. Fan was responsible for the expenditure of the silver taels. I'll figure out a way to solve the matter of weapons, I'll solve it in the last few days, I'll personally go to the manager of Lihe Foreign Company, Bauer, buy a few guns for your action team, he should give me this face, but if you want to buy hundreds of guns for the escort team, I'm afraid that Bauer will have to think about it, after all, such a large arms transaction is likely to touch the sensitive nerves of the Qing court officials, but you don't need to worry about this matter, I will find a way, do you have any other questions? ”

Song Shijie thought for a while and asked, "Sir, what about the problem between Cao Gaitian and Zhang Renkui?" ”

Everyone looked at Xiao Zhenlei when they heard this, he smoked a cigarette and thought for a while and said: "Don't mess with Zhang Renkui for the time being, this person is very cunning, and he is far away in Zhenjiang, and it is very difficult for us to deal with him, but it is much easier to deal with Cao Gaitian, this is what I will find someone to solve!" Is there anything else? If it's okay, just disperse and take care of your own business! ”

They dispersed, Xiao Zhenlei glanced at the eagle and Wang Yaqiao, and the two deliberately walked behind to walk with Xiao Zhenlei, and the eagle asked, "Boss, what's the matter?" ”

Xiao Zhenlei smoked a cigarette and said: "You go to deal with Cao Gaitian tonight, don't be afraid that the scene will be too big, don't give some people some shocking words, some people think we are easy to bully, only by suppressing them, they will weigh one or two when they want to move our minds in the future!" ”

Hearing this, the eagle nodded and said, "Okay, no problem, I'll take care of Cao Gaitian, it's too easy to kill him!" ”

"Be careful, don't capsize in the gutter!" Xiao Zhenlei reminded him, turned his head to Wang Yaqiao and said, "Brother Jiuguang, are all the people who were injured by the secret operation team last time?" ”

Wang Yaqiao nodded and said, "It's basically all good!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei nodded and said: "Okay, then, tonight you come out with everyone who can act, let's go to get weapons together, prepare some more carriages before dark, we will gather at the south end of the No. 1 steel bridge at ten o'clock in the evening, we must be on time, and we must also be careful not to be targeted by the concession patrol!" ”

Although Wang Yaqiao wondered where Xiao Zhenlei was going to get weapons, he still agreed: "Okay, see you at No. 1 Steel Bridge at ten o'clock on time!" ”

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At eight o'clock in the evening, the eagle got out of a rickshaw with an empty canvas bag, threw a silver horn for the coachman to send it away, looked left and right, and then walked into the alley opposite.

The people of Shanghai Tang refer to the lanes as lanes, as they are basically called in the Jiangnan area, and it is different from the traditional Chinese Jiangnan dwellings as well as any Western architectural form. However, it always has more or less traces of traditional Chinese architecture, and more or less with foreign architectural influences, it can best represent the characteristics of the urban culture of modern Shiliyangchang, and it is also the most direct product of the history of modern Shanghai, the alleys of Shanghai Tang are as famous as the hutongs of Beiping.

The eagle took a cigarette and walked around the alley to a dimly lit shop that stopped without any sign, and out of the depths of the alley, there was a dim lantern hanging at the door, and according to Eagle's previous experience, he knew that this was a black market weapons shop.

He turned to look, then knocked sideways, and a minute later the door of the boardwalk shop was torn open to reveal a slewd face, thirty years old, with an upturned nose, eyes that radiated a vigilant light, and a sparse beard on his lips and chin.

"It's the middle of the night, is there something wrong?" The man in the store asked warily.

The eagle didn't look at the people inside, he kept looking left and right, observing the surrounding situation, and after hearing the people inside, he turned his head and said: "Introduced by a friend, string vines, strings of non-sub (black words: buy guns, buy bullets)".

The man inside didn't immediately open the door when he heard this, and with his vigilant eyes, he couldn't stop scanning back and forth on the eagle's body, and it took a full minute before he asked, "Where's the money?" ”

The eagle then took out a large bag of silver and shook it in his hand, and the silver ingot slammed into the cloth bag.

The man inside removed a door panel and shook his head inside, signaling to enter, and the eagle immediately put away the cloth bag, looked back again, and then stepped into the store, this vigilant move reassured the shopkeeper, because only people who really buy weapons would be so vigilant.

The eagle stood behind and waited for a while, and the shopkeeper reinserted the door panel before turning around and saying, "Come with me, don't mess with my things!" ”

The eagle followed behind the shopkeeper while observing the situation in the store, and he realized that the store actually operated some groceries, and broke through the store pù into the room inside, the shopkeeper walked to the foot of the wall and moved a cabinet, and then pulled the wooden planks on the ground, revealing a staircase, he pulled it by the wall, the bottom of the staircase lit up, and the eagle walked down the stairs to the end first, this turned out to be a basement, and the area was not small.

The shopkeeper reclosed the planks and walked down, the basement was rectangular, with guns hanging on three walls, including pistols, rifles, and even flintlock pistols.

"What gun do you want?" The shopkeeper asked, and then said, "I have a relatively complete range of firearms here!" ”

"Pistol!"

Hearing this, the shopkeeper walked to the side of the wall and took down a pistol, bent down and took out a magazine in the wooden box at the foot of the wall and loaded it, and then pulled the bolt to load it and threw it to the eagle: "This is a Luger pistol, an authentic German product, semi-automatic, the parts are as precise as a clock, when the gun is straightened, it can resist strong force, once it is bent, it is easy to continue to shrink, it is very practical!" ”

The eagle took it and fired several shots at the target on the opposite wall, and in the blink of an eye, eight bullets were gone, and the bullet holes on the target were densely distributed around the center, which made the shopkeeper's eyes squint.

"It's okay," the eagle nodded after the fight, and then asked, "Is there a melon (grenade)?" (To be continued) R466